As you awaken each morning, and as your feet touch the floor, how much time passes before you think about your husband or wife, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or your children?
How much time passes before you think about last night's football or baseball game, or some silly sitcom show you watched on television?
How much time passes before you think about that certain person who always crawls under your skin at work and pesters you all the day long, and how you dread going to work all because of one person who seems destined to wreak your day?
Could it be that your day begins by thinking about YOU and not others?
Jesus said,
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also?" (Matthew 6: 21)
Obviously, the things we treasure are the things we love, for the things we love are our talking points of the day.
Obviously, too, we must admit that hurricanes Harvey and Irma have the attention of millions of Americans, and these are their talking points of the day. But in the midst of these storms, how many people, however, are still concerned about the things they treasure, which are the things they love, and their attention, even this morning, is still on last night's football and baseball games and those silly sitcom shows they watched on television last night?
Even on Sunday, just two days ago, people gathered in party huts and in their homes to root, root, root for their teams while hurricane Irma was bashing Florida.
Clearly, their hearts are in the things they treasure, which are the things they love, as their eyes were glued to their idols of the arenas.
Could it be that God is bringing these storms across America to get the attention of a nation? A nation that has forgotten God for all the many blessings we have received for more than two hundred years?
These storms certainly have the attention of millions of evacuees, but, for millions of others, their attention is still on last night's baseball and football games, or those silly sitcom shows they watched on television as if the hurricanes are not a big deal and nothing to worry about.
Above all else and most importantly, how much time passes each morning before you think about God? And how much time passes before you begin to pray to meet your day?
If not God, and if prayer to Him is not important to meet your day, then could it be that God does not have your attention because God is not your treasure, or the one you love?
Therefore, if these hurricanes are not enough to get the attention of a nation, what will God do next?
"If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1st John 1: 6-7)
Please remember: God still has hurricane Jose standing in the bay. Will God restrain him, or release him?
America must choose.
"Choose you this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." (Joshua 24: 15)
How much time passes before you think about last night's football or baseball game, or some silly sitcom show you watched on television?
How much time passes before you think about that certain person who always crawls under your skin at work and pesters you all the day long, and how you dread going to work all because of one person who seems destined to wreak your day?
Could it be that your day begins by thinking about YOU and not others?
Jesus said,
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also?" (Matthew 6: 21)
Obviously, the things we treasure are the things we love, for the things we love are our talking points of the day.
Obviously, too, we must admit that hurricanes Harvey and Irma have the attention of millions of Americans, and these are their talking points of the day. But in the midst of these storms, how many people, however, are still concerned about the things they treasure, which are the things they love, and their attention, even this morning, is still on last night's football and baseball games and those silly sitcom shows they watched on television last night?
Even on Sunday, just two days ago, people gathered in party huts and in their homes to root, root, root for their teams while hurricane Irma was bashing Florida.
Clearly, their hearts are in the things they treasure, which are the things they love, as their eyes were glued to their idols of the arenas.
Could it be that God is bringing these storms across America to get the attention of a nation? A nation that has forgotten God for all the many blessings we have received for more than two hundred years?
These storms certainly have the attention of millions of evacuees, but, for millions of others, their attention is still on last night's baseball and football games, or those silly sitcom shows they watched on television as if the hurricanes are not a big deal and nothing to worry about.
Above all else and most importantly, how much time passes each morning before you think about God? And how much time passes before you begin to pray to meet your day?
If not God, and if prayer to Him is not important to meet your day, then could it be that God does not have your attention because God is not your treasure, or the one you love?
Therefore, if these hurricanes are not enough to get the attention of a nation, what will God do next?
"If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1st John 1: 6-7)
Please remember: God still has hurricane Jose standing in the bay. Will God restrain him, or release him?
America must choose.
"Choose you this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." (Joshua 24: 15)
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